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Harvesting Sweet Potatoes
Harvest sweet potatoes before the vines are frostbitten at the latest. Frost on the vines can damage your crop, so if the vines get killed back by frost, cut the vines. Harvest the potatoes as soon as possible after cutting the vines because cold weather can adversely affect the storage time of sweet potatoes. In […]
GU: Sweet Potatoes
[GU = Garden Update] This is a sweet potato update. Because I posted how I plant sweet potatoes, it seems appropriate that I should post an update on their progress. If you want to see the first post, it is here: Planting Sweet Potatoes. The sweet potatoes have been in the ground for 27 days. […]
Planting Sweet Potatoes
Tuesday I bought 9 Beauregard sweet potato plants from a local store. I haven’t grown sweet potatoes in a very long time. This afternoon I started digging the bed for the plants. Sweet potatoes like a hot sunny place, so I decided to put them in a location that is already taken.
The plants in the […]
